Fifteen Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) students have been named recipients of full-tuition, four-year college scholarships from the Posse Foundation. The Posse program identifies public high school students with extraordinary academic and leadership potential that may have been overlooked by traditional college selection processes.
MCPS shares that, nationally more than 65 colleges and universities each offer full-tuition, merit scholarships to students throughout the country and create multicultural teams—called Posses—on each campus. These student teams receive professional guidance before and throughout college and provide support to one another.
On campus, these students serve in important leadership roles. The MCPS students were honored at a ceremony at the Lincoln Theatre on January 8th. This year’s recipients come from 11 high schools and will attend six different colleges. The Posse Scholar students from MCPS and the colleges they will be attending are:
James Hubert Blake High School:
Sabrina Isayas, Lafayette College
Amber Johnson, Bucknell University
Thomas Edison High School of Technology:
Love Shama Georges, Lafayette College
Albert Einstein High School
Khadidiatou (Khadi) Ndiaye, Lewis & Clark College
Walter Johnson High School:
Candice Nsoga-Mahob, Lafayette College
Northwood High School:
Shelby Wilson, Sewanee: The University of the South
Poolesville High School:
Sandriene Wiggins, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Rockville High School:
German Diaz-Pena, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Marvin Kongo, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Seneca Valley High School:
Kaia Sanders, University of Rochester
Walt Whitman High School:
Devin Kim, Lewis & Clark College
Watkins Mill High School:
Eva Lake Olan, Sewanee: The University of the South
Niharika Wadehra, University of Rochester
Thomas S. Wootton High School:
Ricardo Gomez Vera, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Miguel Uriarte-Giron, Bucknell University
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